vBulletin.org is also "unofficial" - it is owned by Chen, not Jelsoft, and is run separately, though it is on the same server.

Exactly, and AFAIK it was nominated more times and has just won now...
so i think it was fair.

also if this would be an officail jelsoft site we would be offical jelsoft employees, and so on ;)

It was nominated many times before, it just never made it into the random five that make it to the finals, if you will.

vBulletin.org is just as official as vBulletinTemplates.com, both are hosted on Jelsoft's server and both have a licensing system. Both are "actual forums" ran by "actual people", both deserve a chance to win the award and both did. And with the upcoming changes to vBulletin.org, it will become an even less official site.

We have a great staff here who are doing their job every day, and they do a pretty good job. It wouldn't be fair if their work couldn't be recognized just because this site is called vBulletin.org. This site has grown from a 3,000 threads sub-forum to a fully featured website with almost 200,000 posts and more than 1,500 hacks, thanks to these people. Those that browse the site every day know this and I'm glad they appreciate it.

(And for your information, I did pay for this license. I've had it for a long time and used it on a personal site, and when vBHacks.com was created I transferred the license over there. Then we took over the vBulletin.org domain name, but the license is still mine and it's not being use anywhere else. If you will.)

Is this anything to worry about? :paranoid:

And congratulations, Chen. It's about time you won. ;)

do not overinterprete anything.
I'm sure there is no need to worry about anything.

I wasn't over-interpreting anything. That was a joke. Humor, remember that? ;)

Humor? whats that? ;)

It's an American thing. Most countries don't have it. In fact, America has very little of it left. I might be one of the few (if not the only one) holding on to any of it.

*gets a dictionary*
hmm, the british have also some kind of humor i've heard ^^

what about my country:
germany: known as not having humor left, except of some sort of really black humor.

ahh, now i know what it is ;)